{"id":13678,"date":"2020-07-21T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13678"},"modified":"2020-07-23T10:11:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T14:11:22","slug":"episode-384-adrian-tomine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-384-adrian-tomine","title":{"rendered":"Episode 384 – Adrian Tomine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 384:
\nAdrian Tomine<\/a><\/p>\n

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“For all those years, one of the main questions in my mind was: What is my own style? What isn’t a hodgepodge of things I’ve borrowed from my heroes? With this book, it felt like a great opportunity to probe that and challenge myself to investigate that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cartoonist and illustrator Adrian Tomine<\/a> is in it for the long haul. With his new graphic memoir, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist<\/a> (Drawn & Quarterly), he explores his lifelong connection to comics and the embarrassments & humiliations they’ve caused him. We get into the new book and talk about whether it was worth it, what brought him to the sketchbook style he adopted for this one, the differences between his comics and illustration work, being accepted by his cartooning heroes, and the importance of mindless time. We also talk about his ideal reader, the anxiety of influence and vice versa, what he misses about floppy comics (as opposed to bookstore graphic novels), the redactions he made in Loneliness<\/em> to protect the douche-y, Adrian’s remembrances of the late Richard Sala<\/a>, and much more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“I’ll always be attracted to people like Richard Sala, who have achieved so much, who are at the top of their game in some ways, who could by every right be an arrogant snob, but are completely down on themselves, alienated, and think their own work is terrible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n